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Meanings of Pythoness:

noun

A woman believed to be possessed by a familiar spirit and to be able to foresee the future.

Usage examples:

An elevated term for a witch was pythoness, which came to us in medieval times from medical latin v…

Meanings of Pythonical:

adjective

Pythonic.

Meanings of Pythonid:

noun

A snake of the family pythonidae; a python.

adjective

Of or relating to the family pythonidae.

Meanings of Pythonine:

adjective

Of or relating to pythons, especially when regarded as constituting a subfamily (pythoninae) of the family boidae.

noun

A pythonine snake; a python.

Meanings of Pythonism:

noun

Communication with or possession by a spirit; occult power derived from this; divination.

Meanings of Pythonissa:

noun

Pythoness.

Meanings of Pythonist:

noun

A person who claims to be possessed by, and to speak the words of, a spirit; a soothsayer; a fortune-teller; a conjuror.

Meanings of Pythonoid:

noun

A snake of this form or group.

Meanings of Pythonomorph:

noun

Originally: any of various large extinct marine reptiles of the former order pythonomorpha (corresponding to the present-day suborder mosasauria); a mosasaur; (now disused). now: any reptile of the clade pythonomorpha, which comprises the mosasaurs together with modern snakes.

adjective

Of or relating to the order or clade pythonomorpha.

Meanings of Pythonomorpha:

noun

Originally: any of various large extinct marine reptiles of the former order pythonomorpha (corresponding to the present-day suborder mosasauria); a mosasaur; (now disused). now: any reptile of the clade pythonomorpha, which comprises the mosasaurs together with modern snakes.

adjective

Of or relating to the order or clade pythonomorpha.

Meanings of Pythons:

noun

A large heavy-bodied non-venomous snake occurring throughout the old world tropics, killing prey by constriction and asphyxiation.

Usage examples:

Anacondas are related to boa constrictors and pythons.

Meanings of Pyuria:

noun

The presence of pus in the urine, typically from bacterial infection.

Usage examples:

Because of hematuria, bacteriuria and pyuria, susan had been treated for a urinary tract infection …

Meanings of Pyx:

noun

The container in which the consecrated bread of the eucharist is kept.

Usage examples:

He wanted to restore to churches what he called ‘the real thing: vestments, pyxes, sedilia, road sc…

Meanings of Pyxes:

noun

The container in which the consecrated bread of the eucharist is kept.

Usage examples:

He wanted to restore to churches what he called ‘the real thing: vestments, pyxes, sedilia, road sc…

Meanings of Pyxidate:

adjective

Box-like, having a lid; having the form of a pyxidium.

Meanings of Pyxides:

noun

A small box or casket.

proper noun

A small and inconspicuous southern constellation (the compass box or mariner's compass), lying in the milky way between vela and puppis.

adjective

Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation pyxis.

Usage examples:

The star alpha pyxidis

Meanings of Pyxidia:

noun

A seed capsule that splits open so that the top comes off like the lid of a box.

Meanings of Pyxidium:

noun

A seed capsule that splits open so that the top comes off like the lid of a box.

Meanings of Pyxie:

noun

In full "pyxie moss". a prostrate, mosslike evergreen shrub, pyxidanthera barbulata (family diapensiaceae), which bears numerous tiny white or pink flowers and is found in the pine barrens of new jersey and the carolinas.

Meanings of Pyxies:

noun

In full "pyxie moss". a prostrate, mosslike evergreen shrub, pyxidanthera barbulata (family diapensiaceae), which bears numerous tiny white or pink flowers and is found in the pine barrens of new jersey and the carolinas.

Meanings of Pyxis:

noun

A small box or casket.

proper noun

A small and inconspicuous southern constellation (the compass box or mariner's compass), lying in the milky way between vela and puppis.

adjective

Used with preceding greek letter or numeral to designate a star in the constellation pyxis.

Usage examples:

The star alpha pyxidis

Meanings of Q:

noun

The seventeenth letter of the alphabet.

Usage examples:

I encountered some difficulty when required to pronounce the letter q.

abbreviation

Quarter (used to refer to a specified quarter of the financial year).

Usage examples:

We expect to have an exceptional q4

Electric charge.

Meanings of Qadi:

noun

(in islamic countries) a judge.

Usage examples:

Customary law and muslim law are carried out by the cadis in matters of personal rights and inherit…

Meanings of Qanat:

noun

(in the middle east) a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.

Usage examples:

Any failure of the qanats could lead to the death of the entire village.

Meanings of Qanats:

noun

(in the middle east) a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below.

Usage examples:

Any failure of the qanats could lead to the death of the entire village.